Payments

Contactless ticketing innovation has long driven parallel adoption nearby retail. New work habits may change that dynamic.

The Alviere finance platform has entered a partnership with B2B fintech Currencycloud to offer its clients a multicurrency e-wallet for cross-border business payments.

People want their payments to be quicker, safer, and more readily available across a wider range of channels. How are industry leaders leveraging data to build stronger relationships with their clients?

The Los Angeles bank's service, offered in partnership with the fintech Extend, enables card controls and uses tokenized account numbers to improve security.

Social Finance is edging deeper into cryptocurrencies, allowing its customers to redeem rewards earned through the company’s app for bitcoin or Ethereum.

Shopkeepers and other establishments say banks' costs have fallen substantially in recent years but interchange prices have held steady since the Federal Reserve capped them in 2010.

Shop owners and other establishments say banks' costs have fallen substantially in recent years but interchange prices have held steady since the Federal Reserve capped them in 2010.

Security is a constantly changing game, with criminals adopting new strategies and the payment industry and other financial institutions deploying increasingly sophisticated techniques to stop them.

Fiserv is joining the increasingly crowded market for earned wage access in partnership with Instant Financial.

CEO Mark Zuckerburg acknowledged the need to simplify the company's payment experience, particularly for virtual reality.

The bank's blockchain venture with Temasek and DBS, called Partior, creates a wholesale blockchain network.

Less than a month after landing new funding from investors, global e-commerce payments provider dLocal is entering three new markets in Southeast Asia.

With greater connectivity and more information being shared about customers and transactions, there will be more potential to generate valuable business intelligence, says Citizens' Matt Richardson.

The tech vendor allows merchants using the Clover point-of-sale platform to accept PayPal and Venmo payments, a move that serves the company's continuing focus on full omnichannel experiences for its merchants.

Barclays US, which offers a range of cobranded credit cards targeting middle-income consumers, is adding a buy now/pay later option for its merchant partners.

The cryptocurrency exchange plans to roll out a rewards Mastercard this summer, targeting cryptocurrency neophytes.

The quick adoption of financial technology, coupled with remote work, requires firms to focus on internal innovation as well as customer-facing advancements.

Central bank digital currencies are moving much faster in China and Latin America, where the financial structures are less complicated than in the U.K. and U.S.

Mobile wallets have seen strong adoption as an in-store payment method in China, but have lagged in appeal in the U.S. until recently. Coronavirus fears have caused many Americans to rethink the mobile wallet’s value proposition.

The Federal Reserve and other central banks deciding whether to compete with private cryptocurrencies should heed the financial stability risks, such as expanding the economic power of governments and altering longstanding payments models.